Natural User Interactions Supported by Human-Centric Computing

Human-Centric Computing (HCC) or Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is what puts the “U” or user in Natural User Interactions (NUI). HCC is about understanding what users need and want from computing interactions. There are several methods of research to determine users’ needs and desires with regards to computing interactions that result in the most effective outcomes with the least amount of user effort. This Initiative will explore these methods and discuss the importance of defining user needs before developing natural user input and output solutions.

Speaker Details

Kenton O’Hara is Senior Researcher in the Socio Digital Systems Group at Microsoft Research in Cambridge. His research explores everyday practices and social behaviours relating to mobile and ubiquitous computing and digital displays in public spaces. He has looked at a wide range of technologies applications in public settings, including crowd based games with large displays, location based experiences with barcode readers, mediascape authoring, cross media alternate reality games, interactive tabletops, collaborative jukeboxes.

Kenton has authored 60 publications and two books on and public displays and collaborative music consumption. He has previously worked at at CSIRO in Australia as Director of the HxI Initiative, HP Labs, Rank Xerox EuroPARC and the Appliance Studio. He has worked on numerous award winning projects including the BBC’s BAFTA and Royal Television Society award winning “Coast” location based experience.

Patrick Baudisch is a professor in Computer Science at Hasso Plattner Institute in Berlin/Potsdam and chair of the Human Computer Interaction Lab. His research focuses on the miniaturization of mobile devices and touch input. Previously, Patrick Baudisch worked as a research scientist in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction Research Group at Microsoft Research and at Xerox PARC and served as an Affiliate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Washington. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany.

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Speakers:
Kenton O`Hara, Patrick Baudisch, and Mark Rouncefield
Affiliation:
MSR, University of Lancaster

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      Patrick Baudisch

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      Jeff Running

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      Kenton O'Hara

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